MUSICals on TCM this afternoon/evening!

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5:30 PM Oklahoma! (1955)
2h 28m | Musical | TV-PG
Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

8:00 PM Carousel (1956)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-G
A dramatic love story unfolds between a rough-talking, macho carousel barker, and a young, innocent mill worker.
Director: Henry King. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell

10:15 PM The Music Man (1962)
2h 31m | Musical | TV-G
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Director: Morton Dacosta. Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett

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1. Cast overlap..Shirley Jones, Girdon MaCrae

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2. Right, Shirley Jones DAY! and Gordon McRae quite a voice!

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3. OKLAHOMA NOW!

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4. I Love the Music Man

I have a VHS tape of it as well as a DVD copy. I tried watching the 2003 version with Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth but it was awful. Broderick was too low key for playing Professor Harold Hill. The original 1962 version is definitely the gold standard. Besides the songs and the acting, I liked seeing a lot of character actors like Charles Lane, Harry Hickox, Mary Wickes, and Paul Ford. The entire cast is one of the best casts for any movie ever made.